High-precision calibration of spectrographs using laser frequency combs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7735, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Wilken, Tobias ^a   Lovis, Christophe ^b   Manescau, Antonio ^c   Steinmetz, Tilo ^a,d   Pasquini, Luca ^c   Lo Curto, Gaspare ^c   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a   Holzwarth, Ronald ^a,d   Udem, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

exo planet search; high resolution spectrograph; laser frequency comb; radial velocity measurement

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION CURVES; CALIBRATION SYSTEM; ECHELLE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PRECISION CALIBRATION; INHOMOGENEITIES; LASER FREQUENCY; LASER FREQUENCY COMB; PHOTON NOISE; PLANET SEARCH; RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STRINGENT TEST;

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENTS; SPECTROGRAPHS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRIC FREQUENCY CONTROL;

EID: 78149275876     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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